Bulgarian & Romanian immigrants

So the Bulgarians and Romanians immigrants are coming! Good or Bad? Most of the comments I hear are: send the Bulgarians and Romanians back, too many already! But the fact is that UK as, we now know it, cannot exist without them as our young and middle aged locals will not do the jobs at the same rate of pay as the immigrants A life on the minimum wage to many of them is a good life compared to where they come from and what they are used to The stats show conclusively that the % who exploit our over generous benefits is very low. Most after all come to UK to better themselves and their family. Work hard to make a new life and make sure that their children exploit our education system to the maximum so that they can move up in life But our age group seems to ignore this when expressing their opinion. Now I live in an area where the influx of Bulgarians and Romanians has little impact but the debate and anti- immigration attitude is still very strong Are we really harping back to the good old days when England was England and everyone knew their place in life. Well the old days were not good for the majority, when I left University in 1965 most of the house in Liverpool lacked basic facilities! Perhaps it is not the benefit culture that attracts all the Bulgarians and Romanians but the relative high minimum wage and all the vacant jobs which gives them the opportunity to make money out of by working hard It seems to me that everyone want to come to UK because deficit or not, social problems or not, we still appear to many in the EU, Bulgarians and Romanians and the World to be the best place to live especially if you want to improve yourself and your family Now we can deal with this by making our country less attractive but that may have consequences for all us existing citizens! Clearly for political purposes the benefit situation has to be resolved and that applies across the EU-perhaps for a given period new Bulgarians and Romanians should only be able to receive benefits equal to what they would receive in their home country And any benefits we pay straight away to new arrivals should be reimbursed by the Home Country and/or EU The complaint that immigrants place an onerous burden on local services has to be put in perspective: the majority of Bulgarians and Romanians will work here and pay NI and taxes so contribute to our economy and enable it to function Whereas the locals who will not or are not persuaded by indirect means, to do these job filled by immigrants do not contribute: just enjoy our over luxurious benefit system and local service Nobody complains about the costs if a school is full of children from benefit families but they do if it is full of immigrant children the majority from working families! We are all at fault I know, because we did not complain at the right time but it is amazing that this benefit culture was allowed to get out of hand so that jobs have to be filled by Bulgarians and Romanians So we need and will continue to need as our economy grows immigrants of all types and we may as well accept that situation and concentrate on the important and difficult task of integrating them into our society and culture And that is an English society and culture. So for starters the language is English and we only provide for other languages when absolutely essential We are a Christian society and allow all other religions to live in peace unfettered by restrictions of worship but we do not alter our society to be multi religious. We respect their beliefs but do not allow them to change our society Welcome economic immigrants but they must embrace our culture not change it